Motorsports Enterprise Administration (MBM Motorsports) has introduced veteran NASCAR racer Mike Wallace will try to qualify its No. 66 Ford Ford Mustang in subsequent month’s Daytona 500.
The 65-year-old Missouri native has greater than 800 begins in NASCAR’s high three nationwide collection, together with 11 Daytona 500 begins. He has victories at Daytona Worldwide Speedway in a number of collection, together with the Xfinity Collection, Craftsman Truck Collection and ARCA Menards Collection. He’s additionally a winner in each NASCAR and ARCA at Talladega Superspeedway.
“I’m very excited to be teamed up with Carl Lengthy and the whole MBM Motorsports group, together with Doug Yates’ help, for a return journey to the Daytona 500 after being away for a number of years,” mentioned Wallace. “I simply can’t wait to work with Carl once more within the first laps of observe on the World Middle of Pace, Daytona Worldwide Speedway. I say it that manner out of the large honor and respect I’ve for Daytona, together with all of the pleasure and status it brings to myself and my group as a winner right here. Fortuitously, I did win the inaugural NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection race at Daytona, so my identify is etched within the historical past books, together with my Xfinity Collection and ARCA wins on the Speedway.
“2024 was a devastating 12 months for me with the lack of Carla, my spouse of 44 years, who handed away in January from a battle with most cancers. 2025 brings recent pleasure, beginning with this Daytona 500 announcement. They are saying you need to be in it to win it, and we’re rolling into Daytona with the prospect to each be part of after which race to win the Daytona 500!”
Carl Lengthy, who operates MBM Motorsports with co-owners Rocky and Tom Smith in addition to John Jackson, shared some background on how the deal developed.
“Once we accomplished Martinsville on the finish of 2024, we began the method of tearing the automotive down and rebuilding it again as our superspeedway automotive. We made the soar in November to signal the Yates engine contract for the (Daytona) 500 with out realizing with any certainty precisely how it might all come collectively.”
In a group Fb put up earlier than Christmas, Lengthy defined the standing of his group and speculated on the doable Open entries for Daytona. Wallace gave the MBM group proprietor a name and inside a couple of minutes, Lengthy knew he had the person he wanted.
“I watched Mike have quite a lot of success at superspeedways. I introduced him into the JGL Racing Xfinity Collection group I helped to construct, the place we labored collectively as teammates. As a driver, I do know Daytona requires a large amount of psychological ability to succeed. Mike has at all times been among the best plate racers, and the ability set he brings makes him your best option amongst drivers to have the ability to race our manner into the Daytona 500,” mentioned Lengthy.
Lengthy-time group associate Coble Enterprises, which makes a speciality of customized property administration for residential and business properties has signed as much as help the No. 66 group in Daytona as an affiliate sponsor.
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